2011 Connecticut Code
Title 9 Elections
Chapter 143 Electors: Qualifications and Admission
Sec. 9-21a. Search of computerized voter registration records. Duplicate registrations.

      Sec. 9-21a. Search of computerized voter registration records. Duplicate registrations. (a) The Secretary of the State, at such times as he determines, may cause a search to be made of computerized voter registration records to identify electors who may be registered in more than one town. The secretary may compile, from such search, a list of possible duplicate registrations in any town or towns and transmit such list to the registrars of voters of the appropriate town or towns.

      (b) Upon receipt of such list from the secretary, the registrars may make such additional investigation as they deem necessary to determine if any elector in their town whose name appears on such list has subsequently registered in another town. The registrars shall send to each elector on the registry list in their town, who the registrars determine to be the same person who subsequently registered in another town, a notice of duplicate registration in a form prescribed by the Secretary of the State stating that (1) based on a computer search of voter registration records it appears that the elector has registered to vote in another town after having registered in the registrars' town, (2) as the result of such subsequent registration, the elector is no longer entitled to remain on the registry list in the registrars' town, and (3) unless the elector contacts the registrars within thirty days to confirm that he is still entitled to be on the registry list in the registrars' town, his name shall be removed from the list. The notice of duplicate registration shall include a form on which the elector may confirm that he is entitled to be on an active registry list because he is a bona fide resident of the registrars' town and either is not the person whose name appears on the registry list of another town, or has registered in the registrars' town after registering in any other town.

      (c) When an elector whose name appears on the inactive list files the confirmation provided for in this section, his name shall be restored to the active list. No elector shall be removed from the registry list pursuant to this section unless both registrars agree that such elector has subsequently registered to vote in another town.

      (P.A. 97-154, S. 21, 27.)

      History: P.A. 97-154 effective July 1, 1997.